I Need Space

Where space is made, healing can begin. 

Yesterday I saw how simply becoming willing to allow some space between me and my problems lead to things shifting. It wasn't huge, it was actually quite small.

In yoga, I have seen that when I slowly open, my body will clear the clogged spaces. If I quickly try to open part of my body the musculature of my body quickly snaps down and attempts to protect that which I am seeking to open. I think my heart may be the same way. If the grief I've been processing through would have been anymore intense, I may have shut down to it. I may have retaliated with solutions and thinking and "get it done" mode - I would have tried to tackle it alone. Instead, I have allowed the transition to be slow, and take its time (it still is taking its time). Let me say, this way is much more painful in the beginning!

The gentle space that is opening up is the hope I keep praying for. I can see the space for the real light to come in - the real light of healing.

Yesterday in church we read 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13. The NIV says, "Now there are varieties of gits, but the same Spirit..." I love how The Message speaks of "the ways God's Spirit gets worked into our lives..." I love the reminder - or awareness, really - that they are all for the common good. I had a new thought that maybe this is God's will for me. What can I do, how can I be guided to do what is best for the most involved (the common good) - for the unity of the whole?

The wholeness of life is clear, too. There are no more broken pieces of me - I have an opportunity to embrace who I am, be aware of the parts of myself that separate me from my God and my fellows, and choose to be willing for space to be there. The space is where God infilitrates and brings about the healing, transformation and oneness of the Spirit within me. 

I love this from The Message: "Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain - his Spirit - where we all come to drink." Our gifts, talents, and pains are all welcome at this fountain. "The old labels we one used to identify ourselves...are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive." The old lies of labels can be let go of - I can live in the truth that I am enough.

In what places in your life can you allow the space to see the more comprehensive label of who you are and who you are meant to be?